CVE-2026-42151Prometheus Azure AD remote write OAuth client secret exposed via config API
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 0.35%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 71% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Prometheus is an open-source monitoring system and time series database. Prior to versions 3.5.3 and 3.11.3, the client_secret field in the Azure AD remote write OAuth configuration (storage/remote/azuread) was typed as string instead of Secret. Prometheus redacts fields of type Secret when serving the configuration via the /-/config HTTP API endpoint. Because the field was a plain string, the Azure OAuth client secret was exposed in plaintext to any user or process with access to that endpoint. This issue has been patched in versions 3.5.3 and 3.11.3.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 10 days later
· 10 days later
Published
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| redhat-SADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.35% · top 71% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
- affected < 3.5.3
- affected >= 3.6.0, < 3.11.3
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/prometheus/prometheusGHSA-wg65-39gg-5wfj (opens in a new tab)
References
References56
- https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/security/advisories/GHSA-wg65-39gg-5wfj (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/pull/18587 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/pull/18590 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/releases/tag/v3.11.3 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/releases/tag/v3.5.3 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-42151 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
- RHBZ#2466507 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-42151.json (opens in a new tab)x_sadp-csaf-vex
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:41019 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36796 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
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Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-27089 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-wg65-39gg-5wfj (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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